Planning Classroom Management: A Five-Step Process to Creating a Positive Learning Environment

by Karen A. Bosch

Overview

Increase student learning with an effective classroom management plan!

This resource helps teachers develop classroom management plans tailored to their specific needs and skills. The author presents a five-step process that includes introspection, observation, plan development, implementation, and plan revision. This unique field-tested book also covers:

• Worksheets with questions to guide each step of the process
• Ample vignettes and examples
• Numerous strategies for organization, discipline, classroom operation, and instruction
• Tips for working with diverse students

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412937672
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/16/2006
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Karen Bosch, Ph.D. is a professor of education and the Director of Teacher Education at Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk, Virginia. She has been awarded the Most Inspiring Faculty Award from Old Dominion University and most recently has become the recipient of the Virginia Wesleyan College’s Batten Distinguished Faculty Award for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and passion for inspiring others. Karen has also written the book, The First Year Teacher, which prepares and supports beginning teachers in their first year and more. She has published articles in Middle School Journal, Current Issues in Middle Level Education, Clearing House, Journal of Computing in Education, and Journal of Research on Computing in Education. As an educational consultant, she conducts seminars and workshops on classroom management and effective teaching practices. She has presented her research and her teacher preparation program models at conferences nationwide. She was formerly a public school teacher and administrator.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Classroom Management
Overview of Classroom Management
Creating a Classroom Management Plan
2. Classroom Management Plan
What Is a Classroom Management Plan?
The Components of a Classroom Management Plan
3. Introspection: Getting in Touch With Your Teaching Self
Analyze Your Teaching Self
Reflection Questionnaire
Discussion of the Reflection Questionnaire
Introspection and Reflection as an Ongoing Process
4. Classroom Observation
The Role of Observation in the Classroom Management Process
How to Conduct Observations
The Observation Guide
5. Developing a Personal Classroom Management Plan
The Personal CMP
Composing a Personal CMP
Classroom Organization
Instruction
Evaluation
Professional Development
6. Implementing the Classroom Management Plan
Set the CMP in Motion
Planning CMP Mini-Lessons
Teaching the CMP
CMP Mini-Lesson for Introducing the CMP and Its Components
CMP Mini-Lesson for Developing Classroom Rules
CMP Mini-Lesson for Teaching Classroom Rules: Respect
CMP Mini-Lesson for Teaching Consequences
CMP Mini-Lesson for Teaching Incentives
CMP Mini-Lesson for Teaching Social Skills: Friendship and Respect
CMP Mini-Lesson for Teaching Social Skills: Class Meetings
CMP Mini-Lesson for Teaching Cues (Grades K–3)
CMP Mini-Lesson for Teaching Cues (Grades 4 and 5)
CMP Mini-Lesson for Teaching With a Computer
7. Revising the Classroom Management Plan
A Plan in Flux
Reflective Revising of the CMP
Summary of the Reflective Revising Process
8. Samples of Effective Teachers’ Classroom Management Plans
On Solid Ground With a CMP
Sample CMP for Primary Grades
Sample CMP for Intermediate Grades
Sample CMP for Middle Grades
Sample CMPs for Secondary Grades
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

"This book would be very useful for preservice teachers, beginning teachers, and any teacher struggling with classroom management. Each chapter can easily be used for text discussion purposes for professional development for an entire faculty. "

Arlene C. Miguel

"This book is a must for any teacher who would like the day-to-day activities in a classroom to become automatic. I like this book because it allows the teacher to use her personality and strengths in planning the classroom management plan. "

Rebecca Rawls

"Planning Classroom Management offers a wealth of concrete and specific examples, models , and directions. Any teacher or prospective teacher who reads this should be able to develop a Classroom Management Plan and implement it. "

Frances Fowler

"This is a clearly-written, tightly organized, well-researched book that can be very useful for teachers and school administrators in search of an effective classroom management process. Its strength is in the five step process it introduces and subsequently develops in chapters dedicated to each of the steps."

Francisco Guajardo

"This is an essential tool for the beginning teacher. It covers everything from bulletin boards to the grading plan, and gives the new teacher plenty of creative freedom for building their classroom management plan."

Liv Marie Switzer

"A well-organized text that helps prospective teachers learn about classroom management. Provides excellent worksheets for each phase of learning how to teach in a well-managed classroom and offers suggestions and explanations each step of the way."

Lynn Seltzer

"Provides a very practical, step by step approach to developing a management plan that works! Using this plan with varying experience levels provides a great collaborative setting for wonderful sharing of ideas. Teachers take suggestions and develop their plan to fit their beliefs and styles."

Linda Scott